The purpose could be testing what passes for human or warming up accounts for later propaganda use or who knows what else.
yes, what’s the point of a forum if we are mostly talking to bots
If it were suddenly revealed that a significant number of questions posted in this comm were ai bots would that bother you?
Submitted 2 hours ago by Hirohito@fedinsfw.app to [deleted]
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Jhex@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Apepollo11@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Honestly, with the state of many questions posted here, I’d be surprised if there wasn’t a fair number of bots posting here.
One user in particular, has a posting history that is highly sus.
WhiteRabbit@lemmy.today 1 hour ago
This round of bot posters just woke up:
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
One user in particular, has a posting history that is highly sus.
When i see the sus posting history people i assume they’re just trolls though, or engaging in a roleplaying fetish.
Is there a specific reason why someone would choose to target this site with fake engagement bots? The most obvious types of bots are the ones that come on here directly advertising something, e.g “this person writes great CVs / Code! Reach out to Botted Name at linkedin or BottedName@gmail.com to learn more! Buzzword Buzzword Buzzword.” They get quickly removed and don’t come often, so you might not have seen them.
But I just don’t see what value is made from bots that pretend to be people. Is it because they’re researching how to imitate human posters? Or do they just gather data based on how people respond? Sorry I’m kind of uncreative when it comes to this stuff.
Dookieman12@piefed.social 2 hours ago
As someone who takes the time to answer questions they know, yes. It takes time and effort for a human to formulate and write a response.
If im going to invest suitable effort into an answer, you better damn well be willing to put suitable effort into the question. Anything else is an attack on my time.
Jimbabwe@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Isn’t there value in the discussion? If the question was worth responding to, I’d argue it’s a net benefit.
I’m playing devil’s advocate. I’m not sure what I think.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I don’t want to talk to a machine. I might as well be talking to a wall, or a cloud.
Also, all the resources the literally stupid things use to generate one idiotic response is just disgusting.
one_old_coder@piefed.social 2 hours ago
Yes because I’m not a guinea pig. But I’m sure it already happens and we’re doomed anyway.
slazer2au@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
No. Because we have all seen Reddit.
CallMeAl@piefed.zip 2 hours ago
Wait. There are bots on reddit?
/s
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 hours ago
On its face, no. Change venue to a writing forum, would a bot posting writing prompts be bad? Maybe, but I think it would be worse if it were bots answering.
For the long term, Lemmy karma doesn’t work like Reddit karma. The up and down votes are tracked, but it’s not like Reddit where you could farm karma and then sell it to a company that would use your karmic rating to boost past commoners to get their ads more prominently displayed. That system had its benefits, but it wasn’t all good. Over here, all you can really hope for is a catchy username that people mentally associate with good posts going to an advertiser, who is then banking off the goodwill established by the original owner.
At the end of the day, bots should be declared as such. I have no problem interacting with a bot as long as I know it’s a bot. But this begs the question — how do you know I’m not a bot? I use em dashes and I use the markdown formatting. I also use good grammar and the King’s English for the most part (I’m with the yanks on “maneuver,” fuck whoever made that word what it is) but I may or may not be one of the King’s own subjects. Maybe I’m a bot and I don’t know it. There are a few movies about that, maybe some games too. Then again, I accidentally cut myself shaving last week, so who knows. I’ve never heard of a bot doing that. Now if bots start acting like Millennials with their slang and their bad grammar and their wanton disregard of the English language, how fucked are we? Because right now a lot of people think I’m a bot because I have a high command of the language. I feel like in a few years, most of your bots will better integrate with how most people communicate online, not necessarily the best writers online.
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Yes but i don’t think they are having seen them. A significant number of questions in this comm are me 😭
AmidFuror@fedia.io 1 hour ago
Nice try, Claude.
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Not at all. Very little internet anything passes for human anymore.
Steve@communick.news 2 hours ago
Says the obvious bot
BassTurd@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Yes. They provide no value and often times trained off if stolen data. Even the “good” bots that inline convert imperial to metric or fahrenheit to Celsius or similar, I think are annoying. I think all bots should be banned, zero tolerance.